People v. Aragon’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably People v. Bartowsheski (1983), People v. Vigil (2006)
31 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · People v. CALVAREST · People v. Rivera · Heninger v. Charnes · People v. Marcy
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whereas the legislature ... may limit the range of criminal responsibility by establishing affirmative defenses, it also may limit those affirmative defenses to a particular category of crimes without offending due process. Due process requires only that the limitation not impair basic rights of the criminally accused. The limitation of the affirmative defense of impaired mental condition to specific intent crimes is a reasonable exercise of legislative power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Quick“alternative culpability elements ... represent a legislative judgment that ... the act is equally heinous in the eyes of the law and deserving of similar punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Nguyen“It is the settled law of this jurisdiction that evidence of self-induced intoxication is not admissible to negate the culpability element of 'knowingly'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bachofer
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.